The study Nature, Myxophobias e Restraint Territorial: the NIMBY (Not in my backyard) strategies carioca of the Jardim Botânico upper, aims at understanding the social production of the Jardim Botânico upper side space on the grounds of the NIMBY (Not in my backyard) strategies, which have been implemented by its residents. In order to do so, the different meanings incorporated by its neighbourhood, Jardim Botânico, in Rio de Janeiro s South zone, are presented, from its initial agricultural function, in the 16th century, to a recent process of glamorization. Such process is explained by taking into consideration the specifications of the city s nature, specially the mountains and the forests, which have been incorporated to the logic of the real state s market throughout the historical process of its occupation. Besides, it is important to consider the challenges associated with a society clearly marked by a constant feeling of insecurity, derived from the fear and the different kinds of risks its residents are exposed to on a daily basis. This study is based on semi structured interviews with Jardim Botânico s residents and presents reflections over the concept of segregation and its relation with notions of myxophobia and oroescapism (necessity to escape to the mountains for different reasons). Besides, it discusses the different ways, pointed out in this study, to appropriate the public space and the basis of a bio political society, which produces, as a sub product, the voluntary restraint phenomenon. Finally, it shows the opportunity, presented in the studies of urban semantics, of a better understanding, for instance, of the symbolic role of certain terms used by spacial sciences researchers, like the term High (Alto), which is a key concept for the development of this study.